Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Medzibrod & Žilina face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Slovakia Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
The visiting Žilina played their last game only four days ago, a Super Liga match.
Medzibrod form and stats
The supporters are hoping that Medzibrod will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-4 away loss in the match against Badin. Medzibrod were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
Ahead of that match, Medzibrod lost 1-2 at home to Stranavy.There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Medzibrod as they are travelling to their away game against K. Nove Mesto in the 4. liga: Center. That match is three days after this one.
Žilina form and stats
2-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Žilina in their Super Liga matches away.
Impressive finishing from Rusnák, Bobrovský, Ďuriš (2) and Leitner secured the home win 5-1 against Dunajská Streda in their previous game. As mentioned above, Žilina was the only team on the pitch versus Dunajská Streda in their previous game, winning 5-1. This could be a tougher task. The attacker Ďuriš got a match rating of 9.84 in that game. Ďuriš scored two goals, hit the woodwork two (!) times, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 4 of 5 times and had 39 successful passes (of 42 total).
Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Zemplín Michalovce.There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Žilina manager Hynek as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Ružomberok.
Žilina find the net regularly in their away games. 6 goals from 5 away fixtures in the league.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  D. Duris 7 goals |
Medzibrod missing players
Žilina missing players
| Medzibrod | Žilina | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 23 | 9 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Won | W | 7 | 14 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 4 | 5 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 35 | 14 | Scored | S | 28 | 57 | ||
| 38 | 16 | Conceded | C | 23 | 43 | ||
| 91% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 87% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 70% | 78% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 76% | ||
| 43% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 56% | ||
| 22% | 22% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 20% | 36% | ||
| 48% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 76% | ||
| 30% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 16% | ||
| 30% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 13% | 12% | ||
| 1.7 | 2.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 4.5 | ||
| 0.5 | 0.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 4.2 | ||
| 0.3 | 0.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.8 | 1.1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | ||
| 2.9 | 4.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.2 | 11.2 | ||
| 1.3 | 1.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 6 | ||
| 111% | 150% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 44% | 38% | ||
| 2 | 4.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.6 | 10.4 | ||
| 1 | 2.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.7 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Slovan Bratislava | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 23 |
| 2 | Trenčín | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 23 |
| 3 | Podbrezova | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 22 |
| 4 | Žilina | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 18 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 22 |
| 5 | Banska Bystrica | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 18 |
| 6 | Spartak Trnava | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 18 |
| 7 | Dunajská Streda | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 17 |
| 8 | Ružomberok | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 15 | -7 | 13 |
| 9 | Skalica | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -3 | 11 |
| 10 | FK Košice | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 15 | -15 | 7 |
| 11 | Zemplín Michalovce | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -13 | 4 |
| 12 | Zlaté Moravce | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 10 | -13 | 3 |
